Corporate Strategy Manager

Overview

Summary (100-200 words): The Corporate Strategy Manager plays a critical role within the Marketing Team, translating business objectives, market dynamics, and consumer insights into clear strategic recommendations that drive growth. This role focuses on developing and shaping strategy by leveraging existing research, data, and cross‑functional inputs to identify opportunities, frame decisions, and guide prioritization.

The ideal candidate is a strong strategic thinker who can synthesize complex inputs into clear points of view, structure ambiguous business problems, and influence decision‑making across senior stakeholders. They are fluent in using data and insights—but are strongest when connecting the dots and defining the 3o what.4

 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of strategic frameworks, hypotheses, and recommendations to address key business questions across marketing, product, and customer experience.
• Translate high‑level corporate objectives into clearly defined strategic priorities and decision paths.
• Structure ambiguous problems into clear, actionable analyses and options for leadership consideration.

Insight Synthesis & Strategic Storytelling

• Synthesize findings from research, analytics, competitive intelligence, and operational data into cohesive strategic narratives.
• Distill complex inputs into executive‑ready materials that clearly articulate implications, trade‑offs, and recommended actions.
• Move beyond what we learned to define what it means for strategy and where the business should focus next.

Cross‑Functional Strategic Partnership

• Partner closely with Research, Marketing, Product, Finance, and Operations teams to ensure strategic alignment and relevance.
• Serve as a thought partner to functional leaders by helping frame decisions and pressure‑test assumptions.
• Ensure strategies are grounded in real customer, operational, and market realities.

Opportunity Identification & Prioritization

• Identify growth opportunities, risks, and white spaces by combining customer insight, market trends, competitive dynamics, and internal performance data.
• Help define where the organization should invest, test, or deprioritize efforts.

 

Executive Communication & Influence

• Architect executive-level narratives and recommendations for senior leadership audiences.
• Influence decision‑making through logical structure, evidence‑based arguments, and strong strategic judgment.
• Ensure strategies are actionable and anchored to real decisions the business needs to make.
• May assume other duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

• Strategic Rigor: 6+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, consumer insights or a high-growth strategic planning role.
• Structured Thinking: Proven ability to take a "messy" business problem and break it down into a logical framework.
• Executive Presence: Experience distilling complex trade-offs into high-stakes presentations for C-suite or VP-level audiences.
• Analytical Literacy: High comfort level interpreting consumer data sets
• Collaborative Influence: Able to unite different teams around a common goal and keep everyone aligned, regardless of their department or title.

 

Preferred Skills:

 

Physical Role Requirements: Be seated at a computer intermittently for up to eight hours a day.  Move up to 10 pounds occasionally, by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects.  Sitting for long periods of time while using office equipment such as computers and phones.  Repetitive motions using hands and digits; such as movement of wrists, hands and fingers while picking, pinching and typing during your normal working environment. 

 

Minimum Education, Licensure and Professional Certification requirements: Bachelors degree required

 

Minimum Experience required (number of years necessary to perform role): 7+ years of experience required in management consulting, corporate strategy, consumer insights or a high-growth strategic planning role.

 

Travel: Travel may be required

Other/State Specific

This role pays between $120,391 to $150,000/annually, and your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, responsibilities, experience, and location. 

  

At Frontdoor certain roles are eligible for additional rewards and incentives. Speak directly to your recruiter to learn more. 

  

Our approach to benefits is holistic, and includes health, wellbeing and financial components including: insurance for medical/pharmacy, dental, vision, life, and disability, weight loss and smoking cessation programs, matching 401(k) and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan. 

  

Learn more about benefits at Frontdoor.